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Sugar export from Ukraine collapsed in Jan-June
20 July 2021, 07:00
Beet sugar export from Ukraine in the period January-June 2021 plunged by 28x YoY to 2.21 thou. t (Jan-June 2020: 62.81 thou. t). The dollar value worth of sugar exported is USD 1.24 mln (Jan-June 2020: USD 23.18 mln), the data of the State Customs Service show.
Key importing countries of Ukrainian sugar in the reporting period:
- Israel: USD 517.4 thou., 41.8% of the total supply
- Germany: USD 365.94 thou., 29.6%
- Moldova: USD 191.14 thou., 15.4%
- S. Korea: USD 56.86 thou., 4.6%
- Georgia: USD 42.39 thou., 3.4%
READ MORE: Ukrainian Sugar Market Overview 2020/21
As a reminder, 260,000 t of cane raw sugar was to be imported to Ukraine for processing. Astarta-Kyiv launched its processing at a sugar plant in Poltava region in mid-May.
